What is Barometer?

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...